Just south of the Dumbarton Bridge lies one of the most important conservation opportunities for the Bay’s future—and one of the most threatened, a group of scientists is warning.
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The Science Explainer
The Fastest Population Growth in the West’s Wildland-Urban Interface is in Areas Most Vulnerable to Wildfires
New research shows that some areas of the wildland-urban interface – the land where development ends and wilderness begins – are at much higher risk of burning than others.
Stewardship
Could the ghost of John Muir save Alhambra Hills from development?
The family and fans of John Muir say the hills outside of his Martinez estate should be saved to preserve his legacy.
Wildlife
Burrowing owls make a comeback in hubbub of Silicon Valley
Burrowing owls are finding habitat alongside the massive tech companies of Silicon Valley, thanks to an effort to show how the quizzical birds can adapt to humans when given the chance.
Archive
Devil’s Slide tunnels an environmental success story
What could have been at Devil’s Slide makes you appreciate the tunnels that came to be.
Climate Change, The Bay
Foster City’s developer faces sea level rise
Meet the Fosters, the family who build Foster City out of former wetlands on the San Francisco Bay. They and their neighbors now face the difficult scenario of sea level rise. VIDEO.
Summer Issue 2008
Warm Springs Unit Expansion
With no April showers, the largest vernal pool in the Warm Springs Unit of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Fremont was nothing more than a small mud puddle by the first week of May. Curly … Read more
Spring Issue 2008
Shifting Sands
At the mouth of Tomales Bay, sand dunes and seasonal wetlands coexist uneasily with California’s largest coastal campground. The dunes at Lawson’s Landing, home to rare butterflies and plants like the dune tansy, are among the few left of a once-common coastal habitat that could be restored and maintained as a healthy, functioning ecosystem. But can that be accomplished without driving out the family-run camping operation at the dunes that, since 1957, has been an affordable summer getaway for thousands of visitors?
Fall Issue 2007
After the Storm
From the early 1980s until his death in 1992, Bob Walker took photos that captured the beauty of the East Bay’s wildlands, and his advocacy marshaled public support for protecting those landscapes, leading to the purchase of more than 30,000 acres for public open space. In fall 2007, a new book of Walker’s work gave us the opportunity to revisit the luminous landscape photography of this local conservation hero.
Wildlife
Coyote Valley: Another Drive-By Extinction?
As we report in The Checkerspot Comes Home, Coyote Ridge southeast of San Jose is one of the last refuges for the endangered bay checkerspot butterfly. A good deal of that habitat is protected, but the checkerspots here should keep … Read more
